Sprint has just announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011. Sprint reports that it sold 1.8 million iPhones in the last quarter, of which 40 percent were new customers.
for the first time in October.
a net loss of $1.3 billion, which was due to subsidy for wireless devices that increased to $1.7 billion from $1.3 billion due to the launch of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. The company however viewed the iPhone launch as a success (more…)

iPhone users downloaded more than 6 million of the top free apps each day in December.

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iPhone users were busy in December downloading more than 6 million of Apple ‘s top free apps each day.

For the last month of 2011, the iPhone app store witnessed a record 6.04 million downloads per day, a 7 percent jump over the previous high of 5.45 million daily downloads in November.

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Apple has posted record revenue of $46.33 billion and net quarterly profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $26.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter in Q1 2012. It is Apple ‘s highest revenue and earnings ever in a quarter.
Apple sold 37.04 million 
 in the quarter, up 128 percent over the year-ago quarter.
Apple also sold 15.43 million 
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. They’ve just shared the number of iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users who have jailbroken their iOS device since the launch.
491,325 new iPhone 4,1 devices
308,967 new iPad2 devices
152,940 previously jailbroken (at 4.x) iPad2 devices
Total: 953,232 new A5 jailbreaks in a little over 3 days
The data is based on the query that is sent to saurik’s servers when Cydia is launched to get the list of available SHSH blobs for that iOS device.
until a (more…)

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iPhone sales jumped last quarter thanks to the debut of the iPhone 4S. But just how many phones did Apple sell around the world?

A bevy of 37 analysts polled for a Fortune story by Philip Elmer-Dewitt all chimed in with their iPhone sales estimates for the holiday quarter. And as usual, the forecasts varied.

Coming in at the low end, eyeing sales of 25 million, was Gabelli analyst Hendi (more…)

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iPhone sales jumped last quarter thanks to the debut of the iPhone 4S. But just how many phones did Apple sell around the world?

A bevy of 37 analysts polled for a Fortune story by Philip Elmer-Dewitt all chimed in with their iPhone sales estimates for the holiday quarter. And as usual, the forecasts varied.

Coming in at the low end eyeing sales of 25 million was Gabelli analyst Hendi Susanto. (more…)

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Apple may have sold more than 12 million iPhones in the U.S. alone during the last three months of 2011, says Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley.

Sales heated up across all three of the phone’s U.S. carriers. Although Verizon kept pushing its new 4G LTE phones, the carrier racked up record iPhone sales of 4.2 million for the quarter, more than double the number sold in the previous quarter.

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Apple was hit with a $1.2 million fine by the Italian anti-trust body for failing to adequately explain their 2-year warranty to customers.
Reuters reports that Italy’s anti-trust body has fined Apple 900,000 Euros, or about $1.2 million. In their judgement, Apple did not properly disclose information related to the 2-year warranty included with their products.
The authority said Apple Sales International, Apple Italia and Apple Retail Italia (more…)

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iPhone users have been grabbing free apps at a feverish pace, says a new study from mobile ad firm Fiksu.

For the month of November, the total number of downloads of the top 200 free iPhone apps in the U.S. hit a record 5.65 million per day. That figure was 15 percent higher than the 4.91 million seen in October and a full 83 percent higher than the rate recorded a year ago.

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Apple is expected to ship as many as 30.3 million iPhones this quarter, says investment firm Susquehanna.

That estimate is up from the firm’s prior projection of 27.1 million. And for Apple ‘s full fiscal 2012 year, which started in October, the company could ship as many as 111.4 million iPhones, up from Susquehanna’s previous estimate of 104.4 million.

The changes to the forecast stem from (more…)